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Chapter 334 The highest level essay at this time

Hearing of Li Chengqian's arrival, everyone present was surprised at the arrival of the present crown prince Li Chengqian.

At this time, the news of Li Chengqian's poor health had been rumored in Chang'an, but seeing Li Chengqian walking like flying today, everyone couldn't help but doubt the previous rumors.

Don't underestimate the significance of such a political demonstration, that is, Li Chengqian's good health is enough to greatly affect the possible battle for the succession.

In fact, many peripheral scholars don't look at these things. No matter who they are, as long as one side is willing to accept them, they can do their best.

Wang Dong walked into the gate of Prince Wei's Mansion with Li Chengqian in the eyes of everyone, and went directly into the middle hall. At this time, there were already many academic-looking people in the middle hall discussing several rubbings.

Wang Dong saw that standing in the center of the crowd was an unattractive middle-aged man, about 50 to [-] years old, with three long beards, and dressed in ordinary scribe clothes, but looking at his position, Wang Dong knew that this man must be It was Su Xu who acted cautiously.

Although this old man's appearance was unrecognizable in the crowd, Wang Dong did not dare to underestimate him.

Su Shenxing was a doctor of literature under Li Shimin at that time and was Li Shimin's number one literary talent. After the Xuanwu Gate Incident, he withdrew from the court and married Princess Si Nan to become a consort. Although consorts could not participate in politics, this matter did not exist in the Tang Dynasty. It is written into the laws, but generally speaking, when you are a prince-in-law, you basically have to step away from political affairs.

Su Shenxing seems to have faded out of the political arena after he became a son-in-law, but in fact he has no intention of staying away from the court, but re-entered the world as a literati.

Now all this is still going on in a low-key manner, but in two years he will take the initiative to ask Ying to make his own selection from the literature aspect, take the initiative to help Li Tai write and expand geology, and start from Li Shimin's literary courage to support the next new emperor. Later, he directly persuaded Li Tai to set up a literature museum like Li Shimin back then, to recruit talented people from all over the world, and became an important civil servant on Li Tai's side in the battle for succession.

Of course, people are qualified to be able to jump repeatedly. Hongnong Yang’s ancestor Yang Xiong was able to be the King of Guande in the Sui Dynasty decades ago, and he was also a powerful family in the Tang Dynasty. Not so strong, but his father was also the prime minister of the Tang, Tang and Sui dynasties, and Su Xu also belonged to the heir of a political family that stood firm during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It is impossible to be a top figure these days without any political background.

At this time, among the crowd, Su Shenxing was delivering a lofty speech.

When he saw Li Chengqian coming in, he just bowed his hand slightly to signal, and Li Chengqian didn't bother him, but made a statement to let him continue. This is the respect for literati in this era. You can flatter without humiliating.

On the one hand, Li Chengqian walked into the crowd of scribes with a kind smile on his face.

The scribes next to him bowed their hands in salute, but they didn't have any more words to interrupt Su Shenxing's narration.

Wang Dong also joined the crowd and heard Su Shenxing say in standard Chang'an elegance: "I have learned many mysteries from studying the Shigu calligraphy recently. According to my research, this book should be a pre-Qin seal script, which is a kind of history-based seal script. The seal script style created by Zhou is the originator of the later Qin Dynasty small seal script."

"Since ancient times, it has been said that the seal script originated in the Zhou Dynasty, but no one has seen its authenticity. Only by seeing the stone drum documents can we know the mystery of the seal seal."

Wang Dong was listening and couldn't help smiling.

what does it feel likeFirst of all, Su Shenxing really has some skills. When the stone drum writings of the Tang Dynasty appeared, many people seemed to be a mess and couldn't read them at all. Su Shenxing could accurately judge them based on the discovery of epigraphy at this time. This is a big seal script, it's really not easy, but his ability ends here.

After judging that the stone drum script is a seal script, Su Shenxing immediately made a natural guess: Since this is a seal script, who is the most famous person who wrote seal script in history?Of course, it was Shi Zhou, the official historian of the Zhou Dynasty who created the seal script, so Su Shenxing directly believed that this stone drum document was written by Shi Zhou.As for the reason, Su Shenxing said that he asked someone to ask the officials and farmers in Chencang. They all said that the place where the stone drum inscriptions were unearthed was called Shigu Mountain. The original stone drum was made by the historian of the Zhou Dynasty, so the case was solved.

The local people are uneducated, so they say that the official historian who could write seal script in the Zhou Dynasty did not know his name, but Su Shenxing was a man of culture, so he naturally knew how good the seal script on the stone drum was, and the seal script written in the entire Zhou Dynasty Who is the best historian?That, of course, is Steve.

So Su Shenxing, as it should be, gave a judgment. This article was written by Shi Zhou in the period of King Xuan of Zhou. It was erected on Shigu Mountain in Chencang to commemorate the achievements of King Xuan of Zhou.

After listening to such an argument, Wang Dong was dumbfounded. This inference is almost equivalent to guessing riddles. The only evidence is word of mouth from the local villagers.

Is this the level of the Eighteenth Bachelor of the Qin Mansion?

But after thinking about it, he was relieved, this is the limitation of the times, after all, there is a discipline of archeology in later generations, let alone archeology these days, it is enough to be able to study Chencang stone drum as a treasure It is the acumen beyond the times.

Regarding the protection and research of epigraphy, there was a point of view that it was necessary to treasure the original objects instead of just copying their records. This was only realized after the cultural prosperity of the Song Dynasty.

Historically, after the discovery of the Chencang Stone Drum, no one cared about it. It had been left in place for hundreds of years before someone finally thought that it should be pulled from the fields and placed in a place with eaves to shelter it from wind and rain. No one cared that at least twenty or so words had been worn off on the drum.

In contrast, although Su Xu's judgment was a wild guess, he at least provided a reason for everyone to protect Shigu. This is the progress of the times.

After Su Xu finished his conclusion, the next lot of space was devoted to analyzing the calligraphy of Shiguwen. According to Wang Dong, Su Xu's calligraphy level is indeed very good. His theory of calligraphy is at least at the level of a top professor in a calligraphy academy in later generations. Of course, due to the limitations of the times, Su Xu did not grasp many advanced calligraphy concepts, but just came to explain the original traditional regular script skills.

Su Xu wrote while talking, constantly using the brushwork he had learned from the titles on the stone drum to communicate with everyone about the art of calligraphy, and talked for more than half an hour.Wang Dong also found it quite interesting, but after he finished speaking, the reaction of everyone present was mesmerized. Although it seemed to Wang Dong that this was just an ordinary speech, at this time this kind of speech was already at the top level After all, people these days don't have as many open classes as the students of later generations to watch.

After Su Xu finished speaking, Li Chengqian also had an expression of being surprised by Su Xu's talent, but Wang Dong could see that there was a bit of loneliness in his expression, and he must have lamented that the most famous eighteen scholars in the world would vote for Li Tai. , instead of joining Li Chengqian's camp.

(End of this chapter)